06-05-2014, 11:39 PM
No, not the Fred Snyder song (honk if you know what I'm referring to :-) ...
http://news.yahoo.com/beastie-boys-award...46449.html
I don't have any strong feelings about the award amounts but I do applaud their stance on refusing to license their songs for commercial products. There are so many times it pains me to hear a great song being destroyed by commercial use..... at the top of the list:
The Who's "Bargain" being used for SUV commercials....
There are also a host of songs that I always assume are commercials even when I've heard them played on the radio a number of times.... way to cheapen your artistic product. At the top of that list is anything by U2 or Coldplay that was plugged to death on iTunes commercials before having a chance to get any airplay...
http://news.yahoo.com/beastie-boys-award...46449.html
I don't have any strong feelings about the award amounts but I do applaud their stance on refusing to license their songs for commercial products. There are so many times it pains me to hear a great song being destroyed by commercial use..... at the top of the list:
The Who's "Bargain" being used for SUV commercials....
There are also a host of songs that I always assume are commercials even when I've heard them played on the radio a number of times.... way to cheapen your artistic product. At the top of that list is anything by U2 or Coldplay that was plugged to death on iTunes commercials before having a chance to get any airplay...